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Hinata took a deep breath as her gaze made its way around the group. They had stationed themselves in one of the Nara guest rooms. Shikamaru leaned lazily against the wall next to the window, keeping an eye out for enemies. Temari sat next to him and even though they weren't touching, Hinata could still feel a connection between the two. She stifled an envious sigh at the sight. Naruto stood by the door across the room from the couple. He leaned against the doorjamb, looking really bored. Finally Hinata eyes found Gaara. He stood with his back to a wall, arms crossed over his chest. When their eyes met, he smirked a little but for the most part looked impatient for her to start. Kankurou was in another room, with the guards that they had detained, interrogating them.
'Start with the worst news first and go from there.' "I think that the mission has been compromised," Naruto gasped from thee door way at this news. "I think that whoever put that object under the Kazekage-sama's bed knew that there was a Hyuuga on the mission."
"Why do you think that?" Naruto demanded.
"When I first saw the object, I could only see chackra through the wall. So, I thought that it might be a trap for the Kazekage. But when I got there I was the only one who could see it."
"What do you mean?" Naruto asked scratching his head, "I've seen chackra before. Why couldn't Kankurou?"
Hinata sighed and quickly pulled down a screen that had several diagrams of people using chackra. "When chackra is used outside of the body it can usually be seen by other, like with Kakashi sensei's chidori or your rasengan," she explained to Naruto, even though everyone else was paying attention, "But there are some people who can mask their chackra when it leaves the body. Normally this is used as a meditative exercise, to work on chackra control. Just like when chackra is used within the body, people can't see the masked chackra unless they have the ability to do so, like with my families bloodline limit." She then jerked the screen down and it went sliding back into wherever it came from.
"So, why couldn't you tell that it was a masked chackra instead of a trap?" Shikamaru asked
"Well," she hesitated here a little. 'How do I explain this?' "With the byakugan, any chackra that leaves the body all looks the same. There are a few exceptions, like demon chackra," Hinata noticed Gaara and Naruto wince at this, "but for the most part chackra is chackra. The only reason that I knew that it wasn't normal chackra was when Kankuro couldn't see it. I had to deactivate my byakugan to confirm it though."
"Why is that important?" Naruto asked.
"Well only a Hyuuga would be able see the object. I thought at the time that the object was supposed to distract me so that the enemy could sneak up on you guys and maybe use a genjutsu."
"Why a genjutsu?" Temari asked.
"Hyuuga's are immune to most genjutsus."
"Why would they make such an elaborate plan to get Gaara that revolved around you and your abilities?" Naruto asked bluntly.
"I-I don't know," Hinata stuttered. 'I thought that I knew what was going on. What if I'm wrong and nothing was going to happen,' "T-the only thing that I could think about was that maybe it was because I'm most likely to be the first to see any danger that would happen?" She hadn't meant to make her answer a question, but she wasn't feeling so secure anymore.
"Why is it such a big deal that they would know that a Hyuuga was on the mission?" Gaara spoke up for the first time.
"W-well currently there are only three Hyuuga clan members who are ninjas. That would be myself, Neji-nisan, and my little sister Hanabi. So the likely hood of a Hyuuga being on the team was slim. That and I didn't know that I was going to be on this mission until this morning when we met in Tusnade-sama's office."
"Huh?" Shikamaru and Naruto asked in unison.
"W-what?" 'Did I say something wrong?'
"…We were told that you had volunteered to be on this mission when we heard about it last week," Shikamaru explained.